The Monash Faculty of Law is the largest in Australia, with seventy full-time academic staff and a total enrolment of more than 2000 undergraduate and graduate students.
Teaching in the faculty covers the entire discipline of law. It embraces the ideal not only of preparing students for legal practice but also providing them with a broad liberal education. This philosophy underlies the faculty's requirement that undergraduate students undertake a combined degree, thereby exposing them to modes of thought from other disciplines. Monash was the first law faculty in Australia to adopt this requirement.
As a consequence our students are well equipped for a variety of career paths, not only in traditional legal practice but also in government, politics, the media and business among others.